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Lakhs of admirers appointment the Sri Durga Malleswara Swamy Devastanam, accomplish puja, activity vows (mokkus) and booty prasadams with devotion. But, you ability be abashed to apperceive that the temple administration is reportedly not advancement standards in advancing the prasadam.

The contractors and the agents affianced in the potu (prasadam authoritative unit) accept been allegedly resorting to high-level bribery and not advancement affection in authoritative the prasadams.

The temple administration sells ‘pulihora’ and ‘laddus’, and distributes ‘pongali’, ‘anna prasadam’, ‘daddojanam’ and added prasadams to the devotees. But, the prasadams actuality broadcast are not of acceptable quality, according to the Vigilance and Enforcement (V&E) officials, who conducted raids recently.

“We begin irregularities in allocation tenders for provisions, variations in banal registers, not advancement any registers in allocation of accoutrement such as cashew, raisins, ghee, comestible oil, almond and added items to the potu circadian and poor affection in prasadams,” says Regional Vigilance and Enforcement Officer (RVEO) M. Ravindranath Babu.

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“The temple administration destroyed 41,978 laddus, account about ₹4.2 lakh, as worms were begin and aggrandize was formed in them, and ordered for an analysis in 2016. The Vigilance and Enforcement Department has submitted a address to the government recently”, the RVEO said.

As per our investigation, laddu architect M. Ramesh supplied 52,000 laddus to the devastanam on October 2, 2016, of which 41,978 stored in the temple’s kalyana mandapam were baby the abutting day. The temple authorities destroyed the laddus on October 5.

“On October 4, 2016, admiral of Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) calm samples of the besmirched laddus and submitted a address on October 27, advertence that the affection of laddu prasadam ‘is not aural the banned of FSSAI standards and the laddus independent aggrandize and moulds”, the RVEO explained.

As per Vigilance report, temple Executive Officer A. Surya Kumari declared that about ₹4.2 lakh was recovered from the architect Mr. Ramesh and he was blacklisted from accommodating in tenders for the abutting bristles years.

“During investigation, it was appear that laddu prasadam was additionally baby in 2008, 2009, 2015 and 2016. But, no bent activity was accomplished adjoin the architect or the agents anxious who are ecology the affection of prasadams. We noticed that poor affection capacity are actuality acclimated in advancing prasadams”, Mr. Ravindranath Babu said.